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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2010, 09:51:46 AM »
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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2010, 10:05:03 AM »
Nope!

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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2010, 07:29:05 AM »
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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2010, 07:46:46 AM »
Steyr?
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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2010, 08:03:18 AM »
Not Steyr.

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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2010, 12:14:20 PM »
It is the prototype Framo year 1935 for "peoples car" (in spanish coche del pueblo)
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Re: 384. by Allemano
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2010, 04:57:39 AM »
I have it as Rasmussen Volkswagen. In the article I read it was named after Framo's head of Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, but actually it didn't wear a real name. We're taking about one and the same car! :)
It was indeed planned to became a "Volkswagen", but A.H. preferred F. Porsche's KdF car, so Rasmussens project was rejected.

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So because J.S. Rasmussen was involved with both was it perhaps more DKW than FRAMO-Werke?
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Being one of the chairmen of Auto-Union he was involved in both companies, but this prototype was intended to become a Framo "Volkswagen"
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